Silvia Corcione, Giorgia Montrucchio, Nour Shbaklo, Ilaria De Benedetto, Gabriele Sales, Martina Cedrone, Davide Vita, Cristina Costa, Susanna Zozzoli, Teresa Zaccaria, Carlo Silvestre, Rossana Cavallo, Luca Brazzi, Francesco Giuseppe De Rosa
Candida auris is an emerging healthcare-associated infection that can easily cause dissemination in hospitals through colonizing the skin and contaminating environmental surfaces, especially in Intensive Care Units (ICU). Difficulties with identification of this organism, uncertainty about routes of transmission and antifungals resistance have impacted significantly outbreak detection and management. Here, we describe our experience with colonization/infection of C. auris among critically ill patients, admitted to a referral ICU of a University Hospital, in a transitional period (July 2021-March 2022) between management of non-COVID-19 and COVID-19 patients due to the reconversion of the ICU between two waves...
July 27, 2022: Microorganisms